"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers, hot news, Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty and Bowang Marquis Liu Xi ordered to seek Shang Changping and Kunyi for the two princesses of Shang Changping and Kunyi, and the first family of the Ming Dynasty came out strongly."

Before he woke up from the shock of Liu Zongzhou and Huang Daozhou's special trip to vote, the gentry and people in Huguang, Jiangxi and other places ushered in another exciting news.

Bowanghou and Prime Minister Liu Xi ordered to ask for Princess Shang for their two younger brothers, and His Majesty even agreed.

Almost the moment the Central Plains Daily published this matter, the discussion on this topic rushed to the first place in the hot search list of the common people under the rule of the Zhengxing Dynasty.

Now no one knows that Shunqing Liu is the first wealthy family in the Ming Dynasty.

The power of Bowanghou and Prime Minister Liu Ximing has been more intuitively reflected in the minds of the people of the world.

On Wenchang Road in Wuchang City, Liu Ximing found a few houses for Liu Zongzhou, Huang Daozhou and others to settle down here.

Wuchang, which had experienced the destruction of the city by the Liukou, was full of empty houses, and as soon as Liu Ximing led the army to settle in, he immediately announced that all these assets were state-owned and firmly controlled in his own hands.

Seeing the news in the Central Plains News about Shang Changping and Princess Kunyi, the second sons of the Liu family, Liu Zongzhou's heart surged up with an inexplicable emotion.

It's not right to say this, but in the eyes of the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, it seems necessary to bind the Liu family around the throne so easily.

But rightly, Liu Zongzhou felt that this seemed to be paving the way for Liu Ximing with royal majesty.

If it was placed in the Chongzhen Dynasty, how could this kind of thing happen, and the minister himself dared to ask to marry the princess.

Liu Zongzhou, Huang Daozhou and others have been in Wuchang for more than ten days, and during this time, they have argued with Liu Ximing and others for dozens of prime minister's decrees issued by Liu Ximing.

Liu Ximing was also magnificent, and even held a debate meeting directly in the palace to discuss it at this time.

The result was very unsatisfactory to Liu Zongzhou and others.

No matter how Liu Zongzhou and other opponents attacked, Liu Ximing could refute them one by one with only a few articles.

The reason is very simple, with the fall of Jingshi, the scholars of the Ming Dynasty have naturally fallen into a moral dilemma.

You say that it is wrong to abolish science in the imperial examination, so why did all the previous ministers defect to the enemy?

That should also be changed to psychology, why should it be changed in a mess.

Hehe, among these people who surrendered, there were no ministers of mental learning?

said that it was the law of the ancestors that the gentry did not pay grain, and Liu Ximing took out the financial situation of the Chongzhen Dynasty to make it clear, whether the world still needs it or not.

After going back and forth like this, Liu Zongzhou, a group of Confucians who were usually accustomed to occupying the moral high ground and attacking others, were all wiped out and speechless.

Seeing that Liu Ximing's power was growing stronger day by day, Liu Zongzhou and others had to work in their positions first, in order to serve Zhu Cihong.

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Among the six yamen of the Wuchang Imperial Palace, Xiong Bolong, who had been promoted to the fourth-level official of the Ministry of Officials, got the documents transmitted from the Ministry of Rites.

In the first line, under the big red characters of the Yamen text of the Ming Rite Department, it was clearly written:

By the edict of the Son of Heaven, the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, the Marquis of Bowang Liu Xi ordered the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites to reopen the imperial examination on August 25 of the first year of Zhengxing......

The one who came to deliver the documents to Xiong Bolong was his friend Zhang Sanyi in the Xunshe, who is now a third-level official in the Ministry of Rites.

"Well, these are the three exam syllabuses I found for you, review them well, we are dragons or worms, but it's up to you this time."

Unlike last year's apprehension, Xiong Bolong and others can be said to have fully integrated into the system founded by Liu Ximing at this time.

Originally, the officials in the yamen at all levels in the Ming Dynasty had all been expelled and swept out, and now the set of things from the six ministries to the provinces, prefectures, and counties were all newly formulated by Liu Ximing.

Xiong Bolong and others learned these things in the training class for officials, so once they got started, they could quickly deal with it easily.

Especially in the case of vacancies of officials at all levels, Xiong Bolong and others actually have more power than those officials.

If it weren't for the fact that Liu Ximing also had a committee of honest governance under his command to manage the officials, Xiong Bolong would be afraid that few people would be in charge.

Now that Xiong Bolong is in the Ministry of Officials, he has an exclusive office, which is unimaginable in the Chongzhen Dynasty.

Signaling Zhang Sanyi to quietly close the door, Xiong Bolong looked at the imperial examination documents in front of him and groaned.

"Why, is there anything wrong, this is something I finally grabbed it, although the Ministry of Rites says that it wants to sell the exam syllabus to all scholars, but it will take at least three days to get it on the market."

Zhang Sanyi closed the door and saw Xiong Bolong's thoughtful expression, and couldn't help but show off and asked.

Xiong Bolong smiled and bowed his hand to Zhang Sanyi to thank him, and invited him to sit down on the sofa in front of the office and said:

"It's a good thing that the prime minister wants to hold the imperial examination, but what I think is that once the imperial examination is completed this time, we will be regarded as the prime minister's people, have you thought about this?"

Zhang Sanyi was stunned for a moment, "The imperial examination is for the country, how can it be said that the person who participates is the prime minister, so where is Your Majesty?" ”

"Hehe, take a look at the subjects in this exam, Brother Lu Ru, let me ask you, in today's world, in addition to our group of people who have been trained as officials have learned these things, who else has learned?"

Zhang Sanyi raised his eyebrows, and his thick thick eyebrows furrowed.

"You mean, Luo Yongshou Luo Zi period them? They are the teachers of the clerk's class, and these things are naturally only the ones they are most familiar with, except for us. ”

Xiong Bolong smiled meaningfully, "Yes, in addition to us, it is naturally Luo Yongshou and others who are most familiar with, and you are also clear about the origin of these people, but they are all the prime minister's henchmen, so you can also put it another way, this imperial examination itself is specially held for them and us." ”

"Shhh

Zhang Sanyi gasped.

But then he was puzzled again, "Is there any reason for this, Luo Yongshou and the others are already working in the prime minister's shogunate, and they themselves are in power, why bother competing with other scholars in the world for the place of officials." ”

Xiong Bolong laughed in a low voice: "Of course, the joint in this lies in the fact that one is an official and the other is an official, and the prime minister can directly recruit in the name of the emperor's will, but what about officials, this must be appointed by the imperial court." ”

"You see, I have been in the government for a few months, and I can see that some officials have been appointed to preside over the work, and it is not all for us to do it ourselves. But after this imperial examination, it was different, the prime minister not only justifiably arranged his own people into the officialdom, but also directly controlled the entire team of officials firmly in his hands, do you understand? ”

"Grass!"

Zhang Sanyi suddenly burst out with a foul mouth, with a look of shock on his face.

"Brother Hanhou means that the prime minister may have a disobedient heart?"

Xiong Bolong leaned back on the sofa behind him, and swayed Erlang's legs.

"I didn't say that, what I said is, you have to think clearly, participate in this scientific examination and successfully enter the court as an official, it means that we are the prime minister's people, even if there is any change in the future, others will not listen to your defense."

"But even if we pass the exam, we can draw a clear line with the prime minister," Zhang Sanyi said distressedly.

Xiong Bolong shook his head with admiration.

"For the prime minister, this is a conspiracy, we and others are on the list of Chinese literature, Gewu and arithmetic, but others are on the list of science, can it be the same, even if you want to take refuge in others, will others accept you, if you really accept you, can you be at peace in your heart?"

After speaking, Xiong Bolong exclaimed again, "This position of the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, Bowang Hou is really expected, I haven't seen such a sharp layout for a long time, I really admire, admire." ”

Seeing that Zhang Sanyi had become a little depressed, Xiong Bolong chuckled again and comforted him:

"Brother Lu Ru doesn't have to be so nervous, and there is no need to be entangled, in fact, it seems that now it seems that we have already entered the prime minister's hub when we went to the examiner for a living, and now you can only go along the way, the difference is just whether you understand it yourself or not."

……

"Do you understand? How many people do you think can understand? ”

Liu Ximing took the Ministry of Rites document in his hand and looked at Luo Yongshou and the others in front of him with a smile.

Luo Yongshou smiled, "The prime minister's clever plan is one ring after another, and his subordinates think that there are not many people in this world who can understand after all, and even if they know, they can only follow us down." ”

"Hahaha"

Liu Ximing put down his Chinese piece and laughed silently.